Civil War print - Slavery, Emancipation - Follow The Northern Star

From the exhibit ZOUAVES, DEVILS & SASS, Political Passions & The Printed Envelope During The American Civil War.

Print size 22 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 22 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

Digitally restored from a tiny image, the clear message to navigate to freedom by following the Northern Star is given a joyful treatment in this print. Well received by the African-American community, it has made a number of my non African-American friends and acquaintances uncomfortable, a reaction sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious. The period colloquial 'pussons' for 'persons' is clearly meant to convey an accent, and an on line search came up with numerous phonetic quotes, both serious and less so, using that term in like style. See verbatim phonetic quotes and conversations with Harriet Tubman, for example.

• Handmade item
• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
• Made to order
• Only ships within United States.

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Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

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